Even though Apple’s executives said at Tuesday’s unveiling that its Touch ID technology implanted into the iPhone 5S’ home button would only give fingerprint access to the phone and its own online stores, analysts said Apple’s hold of such technology, called biometrics, would be key to wider adoption.
Passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs) have for a long time been the basis of access to gadgets, bank accounts and online services, despite their poor record. It is quite easy to guess many passwords, while others can be broken by brute-force attacks – basically a computer program running through all possible combinations.
They also entail one too many steps for lots of users: Apple said that half of smartphone users don’t bother to protect passwords for their devices.
Therefore the appeal of biometrics, which take something exclusive to the individual – a fingerprint, an iris, voice or facial features – as verification.
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